Exam 9: Developmental Stages and Tasks

Research suggests that personal goals developed in middle adulthood years tend to focus on

Which of the following personality types among women is associated with the lowest levels of ego development?

Which of the following identity statuses is associated with high levels of anxiety combined with being rated by others as especially friendly, sensitive, and warm?

Compared to parents scoring low on generativity measures, those scoring high

According to object relations theorists like Margaret Mahler, the fundamental drive or motive of human behavior and experience is a drive toward

In Erikson's analysis of the identity struggles of Martin Luther, Luther's "fit in the choir" represents his

In terms of the developmental order of emergence, the first psychosocial issue in the human life cycle is

In studies of self-recognition, an infant is placed in front of a mirror after a parent has secretly applied lipstick or some other mark to the infant's nose. Infants younger than 15 months of age are likely to respond by

Josselson's longitudinal studies of women suggest that those who as college students ignored the challenges of identity formation tended in midlife to

Each of Erikson's stages of psychosocial development is a product of the

Which of the following identity statuses is associated with autonomous moral decision making, high achievement motivation, and perception of parents in ambivalent terms?

In Loevinger's theory of development, the ego of late childhood and early adolescence may best be described as

The relation between ego development and intelligence is

In Erikson's stage of ego integrity vs. despair, the person

The major psychosocial question of Erikson's third stage of development-initiative vs. guilt-is:

According to Erikson, 4- and 5-year-old children show marked gender differences in many areas of play, such that boys tend to adopt a more mode whereas girls are more

What is a "negative identity?"

Loevinger's stages of ego development are measured via

The major virtue attained during Erikson's last stage of the human life cycle is

During which of Erikson's stages of psychosocial development is the person most involved in learning to use the tools and adopt the roles of society?